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2026 is set to be an even bigger year for weight-loss drugs

GLP-1 agonists have already had an outsized influence on society, and with pill versions and more advanced formulations on the horizon, that looks set to continue

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Gene-edited babies are the future – but these CRISPR start-ups aren’t

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Mind

Why it is important to make space for solitude over the festive season

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Technology

How not to misread science fiction

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Health

New Year’s resolutions work better if you know what to measure

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Mind

What I’ll be doing to help detox my brain in the new year

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Technology

Quantum computers turned out to be more useful than expected in 2025

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Space

Cosmology’s Great Debate began a century ago – and is still going

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Technology

This year we were drowning in a sea of slick, nonsensical AI slop

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3D6BBB4 Comet Lemmon photographed from northern Italy on 26th October 2025.

Space

Comets were on fire this year – for better or worse

Field Notes From Space-Time columnist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on how comets grabbed the headlines in 2025

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Health

How I learned to keep my brain in better repair this year

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Science still produced many wonders in 2025 despite being under siege

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Humans

2025 was chock full of exciting discoveries in human evolution

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Life

Could the super-rich be cloning themselves? And why would they?

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